Publishers Weekly has posted their "best of" list for 2012 which includes a bit of everything - literary fiction, cookbooks, nonfiction, graphic novels, history, romance, gardening, knitting ... (you've got to love the inclusion of Knit Your Own Cat!) For a shorter list to choose from, try their list of Top 10 in 2012. I couldn't put down Detroit City is the Place to Bewhich read like half-thriller, half-futuristic scifi novel - hopeful and heartbreaking at the same time, this account of the "afterlife of an American metropolis" provokes questions about race, class, art, cultural identity, politics, and transformation. Highly recommended.